FOREST AND STREAM 



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NSW YO&K, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1870. 



To Correspondents. 



All communications whatever, whether relating to business or literary 

 Correspondence, must be addressed to The Forest and Stream Pub- 

 lishing Company. Personal or private letters of course excepted. 



All communications intended for publication must be accompanied with 

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 objection be made. No anonymous contributions will be regarded. 



Articles relating to any topic within the scope of this paper are solicited. 



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Secretaries of Clubs and Associations are urged to favor us with brief 

 notes of their movements and transactions, as it is the aim of this paper 

 to become a medium of useful and reliable information between gentle- 

 men sportsmen from one end of the country to the other ; and they will 

 find our columns a desirable medium for advertising announcements. 



The Publishers of Forest and Stream aim to merit and secure the 

 patronage and countenance of that portion of the community whose re- 

 fined intelligence enables them to properly appreciate and enjoy all that 

 is beautiful in Nature. It will pander to no depraved tastes, nor pervert 

 the legitimate sports of land and water to those base uses which always 

 tend to make them unpopular with the virtuous and good. No advertise- 

 ment or business notice of an immoral character will be received on any 

 terms ; and nothing will be admitted to any department of the paper that 

 may not be read with propriety in the home circle. 



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Advertisements should be sent in by Saturday of each week, if possible. 



CHARLES HALLOCK, Editor. 



WILLIAM C. HARRIS, Business Manager. 



Southern Florida. — The Florida, Agriculturist, in com- 

 menting upon the fact that while expeditions are con- 

 tinually being sent from this country, as well as Europe, 

 to investigate unknown portions of Africa and the Arctic 

 Zone, remarks that there is still within 200 miles of Jack- 

 sonville a country as little explored as any part of the 

 first mentioned continent. As regards the mounds, canals, 

 and intrenchments discovered by Dr. Kenworthy and 

 others, and also as to the superior land on the Caloosahat- 

 chee River availing settlers, it says :— 



''This is a subject we are much interested in, and one 

 that we intend fully to investigate, and write on from time 

 to time. The Forest and Stream is doing a gocd work for 

 our State. To them we are indebted for all we know at 

 present about this section. They have been at the expense 

 of all the explorations hitherto. Cannot other enterpris- 

 ing mediums be found to assist?" 



GAME PROTECTION. 



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Ajit-— -The ninth annual exhibition of water color paint- 

 ing is now open at the Academy of Design. On Saturday 

 evening a private view was afforded members of the press 

 by the association. The exhibition, judged as a whole, 

 was equal, if not superior, to any of previous years. In 

 addition to the numerous artists whose work is familiar 

 there are many who are making their first steps in this 

 branch of art; a move warranted by its rapidly-increasing 

 popularity. We are still a long way behind the foreign 

 schools. The difference, botli in drawing and coloring 

 "between, say, French artists and our own, can be decided 

 at a glance. To an unpracticed eye works of the former 

 sometimes appear to have the color laid on with a white- 

 wash brush, but it strikes the right spot every time, and 

 sandpaper is ignored. Mr. Wakeman Holberton has one 

 of his fine fish pictures on view, and Mr. B, .M Shurtliff 

 .contributes several scenes of out-door study, the result of 

 summers in the Adirondack^. The coloring of this rising 

 artist is particularly good— his trees look like trees with 

 bark on them, not like peeled specimens around a lumber 

 camp. The pictures on Saturday were seen by gaslight, 

 and that dimmed by a smoky atmosphere. We defer 

 further comment until after another inspection. 

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—A correspondent writes us that "the Khode Island 

 Club has fitted up an old mansion, 171 Broad-st., Provi- 

 dence, in the most substantial and elegant manner, and it 

 will be opened for social service on the 26th inst. Its par- 

 Jdrs, ante, and reception rooms, its billiard and wine 

 rooms, cannot be excelled, while its cuisine department, 

 under this able management, might excite the envy of 

 Delmonico." 



Amending the Game Laws op New York.— The fol- 

 lowing is an amendment to the game laws of this State, 

 which has been introduced in the present session of our 

 Legislature at the instance of the New York Association 

 for the Protection of Game. If any of our readers can 

 suggest anything supplemental thereto, or any alteration, 

 we shall be glad to place their ideas before the society :— 



AN ACT 



To further amend Chapter Seven Hundred and Twenty One of the Laws 



of Eighteen Hundred and Seventy one, entitled "An Act to amend and 



consolidate several acts relating to the preservation of Moose, Wild 



Deer, Birds, and Fish, 11 passed April 26th, 1871. 

 The People of the State of New Yo?% represented in Senate and Assembly. 



do enact as follows:— 



Section 1. Section Two of Chapter Seven Hundred and Twenty-one of 

 the Laws of Eighteen Hundred and Seventy-one, entitled "An Act to 

 amend and consolidate the several acts relating to the preservation of 

 Moose, Wild Deer, Birds and Fen," passed April 26th, 1871, is hereby 

 further amended so as to read as follows:— 



§ 2. No person shall kill or expose for salp, or have in his or her pos- 

 session after ihe same has been hilled, any Wild Duck, Goose, or Brant, 

 between the first day of May and the iet day of September, nor any 

 Wood Duck between the 1st day of January and the 1st day of Septem- 

 ber, under a penalty of twenty-five dollars for each and every one killed 

 or had in possession; and no person shall at any time kill any of said 

 birds between sunset and sunrise, nor pursue or lire at any of said birds 

 with the aid of any light or lantern, under tlie same penalty for each 

 bird so killed, or pursued, or fired at. 



Sec. 2. Section Seven of said Acts is hereby further amended so as to 

 read as follows :— 



§ ?. No person shall kill, or expose for sale, or have in his or her pos- 

 session after the same has been killed, any Q.uail between the 1st day of 

 January and the 20th day of October, under a penalty of twenty-five 

 dollars for each bird. 



Sec. 3. Section Fourteen of said Act is hereby further amended so as 

 to read as follows :— 



§ 14. No person shall, at any time or place within this State, take or 

 kill any Ruffed Grouse, commonly called partridge, any Pinnated Grouse, 

 commonly called Prairie Chicken, or any Quail, with any net, trap, or 

 snare; nor set any such trap, net, or snare for the purpose of taking or 

 killing any of said birds, nor shall any person sell or expose for sale, or 

 have in his or her possession after the same shall have been so taken or 

 killed, ary of said birds, knowing the same to have been so Taken or 

 killed, under a penalty of twenty five dollars for each bird. And it shali 

 be lawful for any person to take and destroy any such traps, nets, or 

 snares wherever found set. 



Sec 4. Section Thirty of said Act is hereby re-enacted and amended 

 so as to read as follows:— 



§ 30. No person shall kill, or expose for sale, or have in his or her pos- 

 session after the same has been killed, any English or other Snipe, Plov- 

 er, Curlew, or other wading birds, commonlv called shore birds, between 

 the l«t day of January and the 1st day of July, in each year, under a 

 penalty of five dollars for each bird. 



Sec. 5. Section Forty-one of said Act is hereby amended so as to 

 read as fallows :— 



§ 4ls No person shall place in any fresh water stream, lake, or pond, 

 without the consent of the owner, any lime, or other deleterious sub- 

 stance, or any drug or medicated hair, with the intent thereby to injure, 

 poison, or catch fish, nor place in any pond or lake stocked with or in- 

 habited by trout, any bass, pike, pickerel, or snnfh-h, or any drug or oth- 

 er deleterious substance, with the intent to destroy such trout. <\ny 

 person violating the provisions of this Section shall be deemed guilty of 

 a misdemeanor, and shall in addition thereto, and in addition to any 

 damage he may have donc.be liable to a penalty of one hundred dol- 

 lars. 



Sec 6. Section Forty-three of said Act is hereby re-enacted and 

 amended so as to read as follows:— 



§ 43. No person shall kill, or expose for sale, or have in his or her pos- 

 session after the same has been killed, any Hare or "Rabbit, between the 

 1st day of January and the 20th day of October, nor shall any person at 

 any time kill or hunt any Hare or Rabbit with Ferrets, under a penalty 

 of "ten dollars for each Hare or Rabbit. 



Sec 7. This Act shall take effect immediately. 



The first amendment is intended to prohibit the shooting 

 of ducks, etc., at night, commonly called "dusking." This 

 is deemed essential to preserve the shooting on the South 

 Side of Long Island. It is said that last fall the birds, al- 

 though quite numerous, were for a while completely driven 

 out of the Great South Bay, and the shooting nearly ruined 

 for the season by this unsportsmanlike manner of shooting 

 them, which gives them no opportunity either to rest or 

 feed. It is understood that the amendment has the ap- 

 proval of the bay shooters, and others most interested in 

 the matter. 



The amendment in relation to quail simply restores the 

 law to what it has been for several years until changed for 

 some reason or other last winter. The former law is said 

 to have given general satisfaction, but we are of the 

 opinion that the majority of sportsmen would desire to see 

 the closed season extended to November 1st. 



The third amendment gives the game birds a further 

 chance for their lives by prohibiting their being netted, 

 trapped, or snared. This will, no doubt, meet with violent 

 opposition from small boys in the country, but ought, we 

 should think, receive the support of every sportsman in 

 the State. 



The amendment for the protection of snipe, etc., is an 

 innovation in this State. Heretofore it has not been 

 deemed expedient to restrict the killing of these birds in 

 any way, owing to the fact that they are mere birds of 

 passage which seldom, if ever, breed here; but their grow- 

 ing scarcity and dearness in the market seem3 to render 

 some legislation of the kind proposed necessary. 



The amendment in relation to "drugging" ponds, etc., is 

 only intended to correct a clerical error in the original act. 

 That in relation to hares and rabbits is substantially the 

 same as the act passed last winter, which was tacked on to 

 the section in relation to quail where it had no business 



to be. 



Provincial Associations for Canada. 



The formation of game protective societies in the va- 

 rious Canadian provinces, which shall embrace within 

 their organization the local clubs, is a matter now receiv- 

 ing the attention of the sportsmen of the Dominion. If 

 carried out it will probably lead to the formation of a Do- 

 minion Association to which these Provincial bodies will 

 be tributary and cooperative. To be effective in produc- 

 ing these modifications and changes in the game laws which 

 experience has taught them to be necessary, these Provin- 

 cial associations should correspond with our. State associa- 

 tions. By making them purely representative bodies to 

 which members should be elected by the local clubs, the 

 interest is more widely diffused and the cooperation assured. 

 In townships where no local clubs exist, a certain number 

 of individuals could be eligible until clubs are formed, 



members of which could subsequently be substituted for 

 individual delegates. With us live members of each club 

 are usually appointed to attend the State convention. 

 Meetings of the Provincial as well a& the Dominion Asso- 

 ciations could be held as frequently as seems necessary, at 

 stated or irregular intervals, the local clubs being notified 

 to send delegates, who should serve for one year. The 

 functions of a Dominion association would be purely ex- 

 ecutive; those of the Provincial associations executive as 

 respects their own Provinces, and advisory in their action 

 and relations to the Dominion association. The result 

 would be a grand machine with all the parts perfect, and it 

 can be seen how T easily local abuses could be reached and 

 remedied through its ramifications. 



In Toronto a society with the title of Provincial Asso- 

 ciation has already been formed but, we learn, without 

 consultation with existing county associations, or giving 

 them representation or a voice in the matter. One of the 

 objects claimed for this organization is to do the work of 

 local clubs as efficiently and more cheaply than they them- 

 selves can do it. But here we think they err. It' is pro- 

 posed that when any member throughout the country be- 

 comes cognizant of an infraction of the law he shall notify 

 the Secretary at Toronto, who will send a detective to ar- 

 rest the offender and employ counsel to prosecute. But 

 here will be the detectives' and counsels' fees, and travel- 

 ing expenses to be paid, all of which might be avoided, as 

 county societies can always have among their members a 

 lawyer who would act in his professional capacity without 

 charge. The result of a Provincial association on the 

 Toronto plan would be precisely the same as now holds in 

 the State, where the New York City Association, through 

 its activity, in prosecuting infringements of the game iaws 

 (more particularly as applied to dealers) is confounded with 

 the State Association, and we are constantly being written 

 to from country districts where there are no local clubs, 

 asking why they do not take cognizance of infractions of 

 the law a hundred miles away. Where a corporate body 

 like a Provincial association is expected to do police duty 

 for a State an apathy in the formation of local clubs is 

 sure to exist, and pot-hunters and poachers will carry on 

 their nefarious practices without interference. 



Wild Fnvl in Canada. 



That the Games laws of' the Dominion of Canada 

 are more rigidly enforced than our own, the con- 

 victions which repeatedly reach our eyes in the Cana- 

 dian papers, would seem to place beyond a doubt, and yet 

 we hear a note of warning from that quarter to which it 

 behooves us, as having equal interests, to also give heed. 

 If we except, perhaps, the brant, who find their bleeding 

 places on the more distant shores of Labrador, the majority 

 of the ducks that pay us a regular autumnal visit, are bred 

 on the numerous lakes and sunken lands which are scat- 

 tered about the northern portions of the provinces of On- 

 tario and Quebec. Here, among almost inaccessible mo- 

 rasses, the 3 oung ducks are hatched and nurtured upon the 

 luxuriant growth of wild rice, until the approach of Win- 

 ter drives both young and old to a more moderate climate. 



Probably there is no spot in existence Which to day af- 

 fords such excellent sport as Long Point, in Lake Erie. 

 And yet here, only a few years ago, the incessant pursuit 

 of the ducks which seemed to make this a last resting 

 place before winging their longer flight across the lake and 

 to southern waters, had almost entirely diverted the flight 

 to other and widely scattered points. Now, however, un- 

 der the fostering care and strict system of espoinage of the 

 Long Point Company, the old condition of affairs has been 

 restored, and the great flocks of ducks which are to scat- 

 ter themselves over the whole United States, make Long 

 Point their point of departure. After leaving Long Point, 

 the ducks appear to divide. One body bears to the west- 

 ward and following the lakes finally scatter themselves 

 along the Mississippi and its tributaries as far south as the 

 Gulf of Mexico. The other body follows the lakes system 

 of our own State, and striking the coast, follow it down 

 until their favorite feeding grounds on the various sounds, 

 formed by the sandy islands that line our shores are reach- 

 ed. The close season for ducks closes in Ontario on the 

 15th of August, at least a fortnight too soon, and a corres- 

 pondent of the Toronto Globe mentions the fact that while 

 shooting on that date, in that vicinity, he saw many young 

 broods yet clothed in the soft down of young duck-hood, 

 and had an uncomfortable conviction that many of the 

 birds he shot were mothers rising out of the reeds to 

 reconnoitre, and distract the attention of the enemy from 

 the ducklings still under her care. The same writer argues 

 that but two courses are open to prevent so great a calam- 

 ity as the total extermination of their game— more especi- 

 ally of wild ducks. They are as follows: 



1. Either to put a stop altogether to shooting for a term 

 of years, as was done on the Western Peninsula, to prevent 

 the extermination of quail; or, 



2. To encourage by Legislation, and the granting, if 

 necessary, of powers of expropriation by arbitration, the 

 formation of companies, such as the Long Point Company, 

 for the preservation of breeding grounds Wherever they 

 can be found of sufficient magnitude to make it worth 

 while, and, at the same time, to promote the formation of 

 game protection societies in every section of the Province, 

 to protect not only ducks, but all kinds of game; by sup- 

 plementing by Government aid any sum over a certain 

 amount which such societies may raise by subscription 

 among its members for the purpose of prosecuting parties 

 who shoot out of season; and by facilitating in every pos- 

 sible way known to the- law-makers, the summary punish- 

 ment of such offenders. 



The first proposition is untenable as far as this country 

 is concerned; the second has our fullest sympathy and co- 



